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Capital
Parade
DtlihtiA Villey Heh>¿
An independent newspaper devoted to the development of the
Illinois Valley and its surrounding districts.
To The Editor:
May I take enough of the space
in your paper to say a few words
in regards to the cutting of tim­
ber indiserimately. You folks have
such a beautiful valley and it sure
is a shame and nothing short of
criminal the way the young timber
is being slaughtered here. Don’t
think the tourist cares to look at
stumps, brush heaps and barren
waste, they’ll not come back. Don’t
think the small payrool due to the
piling trade is all there is if the
young timber is cut on a selective
ut as rt should be the tourists will
come back year after year. The
l>ayroll will get larger and larger
as more trees can be harvested.
The game will have a place of
refuge. There will be a permanent
type of resident instead of the
transient, the merchants will he
assured of a steady income, and
there’ll be new industries come in
as more uses are found for the
by-products of wood?
I as the manager for Rfefferle
Brothers have tried for years to
preserve our timber, and have
never hunted on my own place.
Why should the little gray
squirrels that are so beautiful be
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WAR-PEACE
“ Certain principles must be up
held.
“This is no time for jitters.
“ It is a time for cool heads and
clear thinking.’’
In these fo u r sh o rt sentences
Governor Douglas McKay con
densed w hat he said he could w rite
a book about.
The Governor who served in both
world w ars still holds faith with
those who are striv in g to avoid
another world war.
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OUR FACE IS SLIPPING IN ASIA
With the first flush of patriotic enthusiasm
ebbing, the politicians are once more settling
back to blame the Korean situation on each other
and to make political capital of the fact that the
United States is involved in a shooting war, un­
declared though it may be.
With our Japanese experience behind us, it
is not (juite such a shock to hear once more that
an American soldier is not a match for a dozen
well-trained, heavily armed orientials, and that
a somewhat more equitable balance will have to
be attained before we can show much progress on
the battlefield. Yet it is discouraging to read day
after day that the American forces are having to
fall back, yielding position after position to the
overwhelming numbers and superior armor of
the communist north Koreans. A short five years
ago, we had the most powerful military force in
the world.
In one respect only is the United States in a
fortunate position, and that is in having General
Douglas MacArthur in command. Many newsmen
have criticized MacArthur as a stuffed shirt
and a grand-stander, but his military genius is
acknowledged by all. Americans, from the Penta­
gon to the man in the street, know that every­
thing militarily possible is being done, and that
the limited forces at our command are being
utilized to the best possible advantage.
MacArthur, the “conqueror of Japan” (unless
you were in the Navy or Marines), has had his
share of defeats and defensive fighting. He
knows the Orient and the oriental mind as prob­
ably no other general officer we have, and he
knew that we would have to fight again in Asia.
Although the exact date was a tactical surprise,
the invasion by the northern Koreans was no sur­
prise to MacArthur—perhaps our decision to
stand and fight was, but he was prepared for that
too. As prepared as a general can be with a skele­
ton police force, and virtually no modern war
equipment. He knew we would have to fight in
the Orient sooner or later; what a few short
weeks since his urgent appeal for more troops
and material in Japan. And he has sounded the
communist warning since V-J day, when the Rus­
sians were still a backward sort, but definitely
on the wholesome side and anxious to be friends
if we would just give them a chance.
And General MacArthur, and the United
States in general, has another worry—is this
Korean business a feint to draw off our limited
troops and war material while the communists
of some other country, or perhaps the Russians
themselves, walk into other undefended territory
and make themselves at home? So he hardly
dares commit all of the strength at his command.
The Russians can stir their satellites up in China,
Burma, Indo-China, the Philippines, Indonesia
and Korea until the United Nations (United
States) is engaged on a dozen fronts, with not a
Russian division fighting anywhere and the full
weight of Russian warpower free to strike any­
where in the world. Hitler wasn’t even in it with
this guy Stalin.
Once more Americans are learning that it’s a
long way across the Pacific Ocean when you want
to get a lot of men and heavy goods there in a
hurry. Opposition by international airlines has
hamstrung a merchant marine of the air. yet the
airlines themselves cannot cope with the load de­
spite the fact that their subsidy claim on the U.S.
Treasury is based largely on their “defense
value. And ironically enough, overwater airline
competition has whittled our surface merchant
fleet down to a mere yacht club.
We can take a lot of planes and ships out of
mothballs, hut we can’t do it today—that’s when
they’re needed. It may be some time before we
are equipped to deal with the local situation in
Korea. And hv that time it may no longer he local.
TIDE
“ All of us hate w ar.
THE
GUN
Politicians who have taken it
fo r granted th a t the 1950 census
will give Oregon an o th e r repre­
sentative in congress are busy ju g ­
gling the boundary lines of the
four congressional districts to pro­
vide for a fifth. T here are two
very apprehensive “ ifs” to be de­
clared, however.
The tentative count of the cen­
sus gives the sta te a gain of 420,-
04(1. T hat m ust hold up well in
the final figures before we can
i hope for another representative.
For decades the congress has
kept to the fixed 435 members.
The estim ated population of the
| United States is over 150,000,000.
If the dotal count is close to this
and the num ber of m em bers in
i congress m aintained the r a t i o
would require more population per
representative than now practiced.
ASSESSOR
COURSES
REFRESHER
The O regon sta te tax commis­
sion has announced a series of two-
day refresh er courses fo r assessors
in four cities du rin g September.
T he sessions will he devoted
principally to appraising lots, in-
! dustrial plants, stock in trade and
depreciation. They will be held in
Portland, Baker, B urns and Co­
quille. Speakers will include ap­
praisem ent engineers and key em
I ployees of the tax commission.
RAISE
WAGE
WORKERS’
SCALE
A recent order of the state wage
and hour commission has estab­
lished a five and a half day work
week for women and minora in
laundry and cleaning plants.
Explaining the order, W. E
Kimsey, state labor commissioner
said it also sets a minimum pay
scale of GO cents an hour for learn­
er» and extra w orkers. The scale
was form erly 35 cents an hour.
WAR
MATERIALS
SOUGHT
The im portance of search for
manganese, tungsten and other
w ar niateii ils in Oregon is em pha­
sized in a le tte r received this week
by G overnor Douglas McKay. The,
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democratic prim aries, is working
100 per cent for Flegel . . . Phil
Roth, recently elected president
of Young Republican Club, is a
o re deposits.
delegate to the C entral Labor
Even low-grade ore in large ton­ Council . . . Reports a re th a t a
Duff-Morse republican tick et in
nage deposits is valuable.
OREGON MAN HONORED
1951 has passed beyond the talk
The 14-state governors’ in ter­ stage.
state Indian council inform ed Gov­
ernor Douglas McKay this week of i
the appointm ent of A. H a r v e y
W right, Salem, as chairm an of the
council’s educational committee.
governor alerted field operatives
of the sta te geology and mineral
industries to be on the continual
lookout for evidence of manganese
"The Best
for less
by Les"
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8 /1 0 M ile East On Caves Hiway
From where I sit... ¿y Joe Marsh
POLITICS
ASTIR
“ L ato u retta for G overnor” com­
m ittee chairm an, H. B. VanDuzer,
orom inent Oregon lum berm an and
form er chairm an of the sta te high­
way commission, has elaborate
plans for the campaign — sta rts
Monday. Oregon is one of the eight
states in which the communist
party shows the g re a te st decline.
Governor Douglas McKay plans a
heavy campaign. Expects to in­
vade every county in Oregon be­
fore election. Form ation o f a
socialist party in Oregon under
the provisions o f the sta te law
were planned in May. Not a peep .
since . . . Rmor has it Rep. Wil­
liam IL Morse, Pendleton, will h e
chairm an of house ways and means
coinnuittee a t 1951 legislative ses­
sion . . . W alter Pearson, s ta ’e
treasurer, and opponent of Aus­
tin Flegel (the w inner) in May
There it Was—
Right in The Middle!
Easy Roberts mowed his lawn
early last Saturday. Then he sat
on the porch, and watched Handy
Peterson cutting hi» grass.
The Roberts’ property and the
Peterson’s border each other —
with no hedge or fence between
them. So, when Easy notices Handy
had left about a four-foot strip
unmowed along the boundary, he
walks over and asks why.
“T hat’s your land,” says Handy.
“ Mine ends here. See, it lines up
with th a t oak tree across the
road!” Easy didn’t think so, so
they went up and down looking for
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the surveyor’s marker. Where did
they find it? Right in the middle
of their “no man’s land! *’
Well, they both grin and take
turns finishing the job and then re­
treat to Easy’a for a friendly glass
of beer together. From where I ait,
a little searching around for the
truth of the matter often showa
that the other fellow la as much
right as you are—at which point
the whole thing doesn’t seem ac
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